Commonwealth v. Prince

This defendant, Sylvester Prince, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, being charged with having mortally wounded one Austin E. Wilmore on March 24, 1930, at 513 Fern Street, Darby, in this county, by making an assault on him, the said Austin E. Wilmore, and then and there feloniously, wilfully, and in his malice aforethought killing and murdering. He immediately became a fugitive from justice.

On October 1,1930, we sentenced this defendant to the county jail for a period of not less than six years and not more than 12 years at separate and solitary confinement at hard labor.

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